#17403
01/28/2001 11:49 PM
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Dear AWADers : I opened my private messages and there it was ... the sender noted as "wordsmith." I had sent off a message asking who the 2,000 poster is. - And wordsmith responded! The Poster 2000 Child is "satin." All that reporting experience finally came in handy again. You want to know an answer? Ask the question ! And I did remember to say "please." Now I will send a Thank you reply!  Welcome SATIN. Hip Hip Hurrah! wow
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#17404
01/29/2001 12:06 AM
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wow noted: You want to know an answer? Ask the question !
And I did remember to say "please." Hmm. I wonder why that has never worked for me? I have sent a couple of private messages, and emailed as well, every time remembering to say "please", and have never had a response of any sort, other than an autoresponder letting me know that my email was received. Oh well, nobody ever said life was fair.
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#17405
01/29/2001 12:44 AM
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I am duly awed and humbled. Max, regrettably, you will never be a wow. Get over it. 
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#17406
01/29/2001 12:53 AM
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Dear wow: All I can say is WOW!
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#17407
01/29/2001 1:37 AM
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AnnaS gently remonstrated Max, regrettably, you will never be a wow. Get over it.Aksherly, I pretty much have. It's only when those with whom he does deign to correspond mention it that the old petulance suppurates anew.  
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#17408
01/29/2001 1:41 AM
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Wow, you are now the board's official high priestess, having the ear of The Great and Powerful Anu. Let us know what sacrifices you expect.
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#17409
01/29/2001 1:54 AM
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Wow, you are now the board's official high priestess, having the ear of The Great and Powerful Anu.
'Scuse me, but I beg to differ. There is one (at least)
here who has spoken to The Great And Powerful on the phone.
Literally had his ear.
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#17410
01/29/2001 5:48 AM
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Who is to say that the person who responded to wow's inquiry was really the real Anu? Anyone can poke a message out on a keyboard and anyone can sign any name they like.
Sincerely yours,
Elvis Presley
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#17411
01/29/2001 8:08 AM
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Not wishing to deviate but ....
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Funny how some people seem to think that this bulletin board is about the discussion of words. Some people have suggested that ocassionally some people wander off the subject. As I never wander off the subject of words, I can't imagine what they are talking about. I'm sure that this thread demonstrates our total commitment to the subject of words. We'll have to re-visit it when we get to the next Millennium, poster MMM.
In the meantime, we could leave Father Steve on lookout duty in case there is a "second coming". I'm sure that no-one would doubt his credentials, WoW can keep the lamps trimmed.
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#17412
01/29/2001 1:19 PM
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Max Q wrote : I wonder why that has never worked for me? I have sent a couple of private messages, and emailed as well, every time remembering to say "please", and have never had a response of any sort,
Dear, dear Max ...
Do not be upset, you sweet thing, perhaps it is that my age and The Great Anu's respect for my hard-won white hair caused him to reply. Such a gentleman, our Anu.
Dear sweet Jackie : I am a rug under your feet. I think I just got lucky.
Much love to you all for your kind comments ... (Namaste emoticon to all)
Aloha,
wow
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#17413
01/29/2001 9:35 PM
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Sorry to break into your celebration, but have any of you stopped to think about the name of this 2000th person? In wow's post the name is in lowercase as satin, easily disguised as cloth, but we fail to realize that if the first letter is put in the upper case we get Satin. Is there some ominous message in this? What kind of harbinger hath descended on us? Is some Evil going to come upon us in the coming months? Did someone intentionally plant that name there? Was it one of us? Is the name actually intended to mean a type of fabric? What is your favorite type of fabric? Am I asking useless questions?
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#17414
01/29/2001 10:32 PM
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>Am I asking useless questions? mostly you are just misspelling Beelzebub... Lucifer... Satan. ing with you, I hope.
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#17415
01/29/2001 10:46 PM
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mostly you are just misspelling Beelzebub... Lucifer... Satan
like I said, it's in disguise . . .
[walking away with head down hitting myself emoticon]
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#17416
01/30/2001 3:39 AM
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like I said, it's in disguise . . .Well, it could be Satan, saturnine, smooth as Satin.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#17417
01/30/2001 8:31 AM
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Someone has asked what sacrifices wow expects since her elevation to priestesshood - I want to know what sacrifice she offered! The wise one also says, " ... respect for my hard-won white hair caused him to reply" What competition do you have to enter to get white hair as a prize? Mine has come with no visible effort on my part at all!
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#17418
01/30/2001 8:54 AM
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[walking away with head down hitting myself emoticon]
Jazz, don't do such terrible things to yourself, please! I'm sure there are plenty of volunteers to do it for you!
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#17419
01/30/2001 11:05 AM
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Jazz-o, in case you're raising an eyebrow, Rhuby's teasing was intended in the same vein as my telling Ted that none of us doubt whether he is sane. In other words, we know you can take it! Now as to evil coming to befall us--I rather doubt it. The word satin has come to be closely associated with the word smooth, so I rather expect our 2000th subscriber to be a smooth operator! Did you all know that the colorful shirts that jockeys wear are called silks?
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#17420
01/30/2001 12:37 PM
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In reply to:
Did you all know that the colorful shirts that jockeys wear are called silks?
.. as are QCs.
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#17421
01/30/2001 12:53 PM
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as are QCs....who work with briefs
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#17422
01/30/2001 5:37 PM
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[quote]What competition do you have to enter to get white hair as a prize? Mine has come with no visible effort on my part at all![quote] As did mine! I guess discvovering that I appear to be the only ayleur Anu chooses not to reply to has merely accelerated the greying process, which started a decade or so ago, at the ripe old age of 23.
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#17423
01/30/2001 7:55 PM
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Mygrey hair comes being Irish-- and as one friend said-- all of the irish are
pigment challenged--challenged being the PC way to talk about it. We have very little pigment in our skin-- and have trouble keeping it in our hair!
My grey hair? did i forget to mention I am a natural blond! last i checked, most hair dyes uses organic compounds like ammonia and water and oxygen to dye hair-- so who is to say its not natural?
Obviously Max-- you must be part Irish!
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#17424
01/30/2001 8:04 PM
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In reply to:
Obviously Max-- you must be part Irish!
5/8ths, though the only real evidence is my height, inherited from leprechauns, methinks.
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#17425
01/30/2001 8:13 PM
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and your grey hair!
as for height-- do a positive re-frame-- do your feet reach the floor? Well, then you're fine! If you measure from the top down, and make sure your feet reach the floor-- well what difference where you started? But if your feet didn't reach the floor--sure that could be a problem!
my father is 5' 1", and my mother 5' 2"-- at 5' 5" i am the tallest of all my siblings.
Once as i slipped into the last available seat in a movie theater, the "gentleman" behind me, exclaimed, Oh good-- someone short!-- I turn around and informed him i was not short-- (and i don't think i am, even as i admit I am not tall.. )
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#17426
01/30/2001 10:23 PM
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...who work with briefs ... and, what's more, they're other people's briefs! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#17427
01/31/2001 12:11 PM
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I'm sure that this thread demonstrates our total commitment to the subject of wordsSo am I [anirony feigning emoticon]. - But a total commitment need not be an exclusive commitment. Words are with us like our shadows. We need them even to wander off-thread .
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#17428
01/31/2001 1:05 PM
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In reply to:
they're other people's briefs!
Well, not quite true, since they are responsible for writing the briefs-- even if they do it on someone elses behalf-- but are they brief?
In US briefs! can run hundreds of pages--and be anything but brief!
(every time i type the word brief--its seems weirder and weirder-- i have to go look it up and learn something about it)
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#17429
01/31/2001 1:32 PM
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satin/Satin-------Jazz's post brought up some very interesting questions. I was wondering the same things when I read the initial question and answer of 2000 poster child. Which also brings to mind-----the fabric is smooth and silky and the name is also smooth and silky (at first)
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#17430
01/31/2001 1:38 PM
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Thanks Rhu for the nice things said to Jazz. I, for one, did not read any further posts and responded to Jazz's beautiful post. And then, after posting, read more posts-----What a sucker I am? No wonder my teenagers think I'm so stupid. Satin/Satan ---why did't I see this? But then again-------think about it----it is a disguise and Jazz could still come out on top!!!! Jazz, with me around, I will take the "hits" for you. enthusiast
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#17431
01/31/2001 1:45 PM
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Brief------What an interesting chain of events. from "Anu-he answered me----to----satin/Satin/Satan----to----silks----to----Briefs (hmm I could add more silk to this one) but I think I will add-----another type:
Brief---------in German/Deutsch Brief means letter. So hence, whether it a letter is long or short, it is still a "Brief".
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#17432
01/31/2001 1:52 PM
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As I await the appearance of a post from "satin" I will sit quiety humming "My Satin Doll."
wow
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#17433
01/31/2001 3:12 PM
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>As I await the appearance of a post from "satin"...
don't hold your brieth. [obscure reference to yet another rehashed fred (yarf)]
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#17434
01/31/2001 4:25 PM
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"My Satin Doll" WOW sent this positive note, but another Musical Brief comes to mind. How about "Satin Sheets" although smooth and comforting----they are also slippery????!!!! enthusiast
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#17435
02/01/2001 12:11 PM
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Helen, from your earlier post re grey hairs, I'm wondering if your real name is Mother McCree? But you write, " every time i type the word brief--its seems weirder and weirderI have the same problem with the word "de-brief" - it conjures up all sorts of naughty pictures, such that I can scarce forbear to grin.
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#17436
02/02/2001 2:02 AM
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All right, we are showing our collective age folks, and our short memories are showing. Twas a mere three or four thousand posts ago when we noticed that our Anu has a greater chance of answering those with protuberances than those with dangly bits – ladies man that he is .
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#17437
02/10/2001 10:22 PM
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Old lawyers never die; they are simply debriefed.
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02/10/2001 10:33 PM
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Dear FS: I think debriefing lawyers might be as cruel as defrocking your less deserving colleagues. Best I could think of at the moment. wwh
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#17439
02/11/2001 8:39 AM
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If a person who gathered and arranged the pages of books in preparation for binding were to commit murder or treason, would he be subject to decollation?
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#17440
02/11/2001 10:01 AM
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Well, he'd certainly be in a bit of a bind if the police went by the book ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#17441
02/11/2001 6:23 PM
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I still think this is one of the funniest things I've read.
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That humorous combining form, 'de-'
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Here's a clever bit of logomachy making its way around the e-mail circuit.
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed and dry cleaners depressed? Laundry workers could decrease, eventually becoming depressed and depleted!
Even more, bedmakers will be debunked, baseball players will be debased, landscapers will be deflowered, bulldozer operators will be degraded, organ donors will be delivered, software engineers will be detested, the BVD company will be debriefed, and even musical composers will eventually decompose.
On a more positive note though, perhaps we can hope politicians will be devoted.
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#17442
02/12/2001 11:41 AM
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Whilst those who are no longer news-worthy will have been defamed, no doubt.
But the really burning question is:
If we are definite, is that a proof of the existence of eternity?
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